These Gems have been used in production by RightScale since February 2007 and are continuously
improved and updated with any new features offered by Amazon. When we started with AWS we had
no choice but to write our own Gems and we're glad to make them available to the
Ruby community. The design goals for these gems are:

Persistent HTTP connections with network-level retry layer using RightHttpConnection. This includes socket timeouts and retries.

HTTP-level retry layer. Certain (user-adjustable) HTTP errors returned by Amazon's services are classified as temporary errors. These errors are automaticallly retried using exponentially increasing intervals. The number of retries is user-configurable.

These Gems are supported by RightScale Inc,
please email support@rightscale.com with requests
for help or suggestions. We will do our best to respond to bug reports quickly, of course we
always appreciate patches!

Thorsten von Eicken

Comments

Demonstrates a solid Commitment to Open Source Goals

The work RightScale does on this Ruby gem show that they care about the Open Source support for Cloud Computing. I know that lots of work goes into the development and testing of code of this quality. Thank you for your support and keep the new versions and updates rolling. You have provided my development projects with a strong platform to interface AWS Cloud Computing Services.

This is far more robust than the simple libraries Amazon released, I highly recommend checking it out... If for nothing else than it throwing proper errors instead of just raising a standard exception.